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Xabier Vázquez-Campos, PhD

Computational biologist | Environmental microbiologist

Education

PhD in Environmental Engineering

The University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

2015 - 2011

  • Thesis: “Geomicrobiological aspects of the (bio)leaching of weathered low-grade uranium ore”.
  • Supervisors: Prof. T. David Waite, Prof. Brett A. Neilan.
  • Co-supervisors: Dr. Richard N. Collins, Dr. Andrew S. Kinsela.

MSc in Microbiology

Autonomous University of Madrid

Madrid, Spain

2008 - 2007

  • Thesis: “Set-up of molecular ecology methodologies for the monitoring of microbial populations in an indirect reactor for the bioleaching of Zn from polymetallic sulfide concentrates” [in Spanish].
  • Supervisor: Prof. Ricardo Amils.

Licenciate in Biology

University of Vigo

Vigo, Spain

2007 - 2002

  • 5 years degree (300 ECTS).
  • Equivalent to BSc in Biology and MSc in Biotechnology.

Research Experience

Senior research associate / Postdoctoral fellow

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences

The University of New South Wales

Current - 2023

Research assistant (casual)

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences

The University of New South Wales

2023

Bioinformatics scientist

MINIMUM bio

Sydney, Australia

2023

Visiting fellow

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences

The University of New South Wales

2023

Senior research associate / Postdoctoral fellow

NSW Systems Biology Initiative. School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences

The University of New South Wales

2022

  • Bioinformatics support / consulting.
  • Consulting for the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, and its customers, esp. amplicon, metagenomics and Oxford Nanopore applications.

Research associate / Postdoctoral fellow

NSW Systems Biology Initiative. School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences

The University of New South Wales

2021 - 2017

  • Consulting for the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics.
  • Collaborative bioinformatics reasearch as part of a team including the users of the Ramaciotti Centre for genomics.

Research associate / Postdoctoral fellow

BioGEMS group. Water Research Centre and School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The University of New South Wales

2017 - 2015

  • Study of microbial communities in a burial ground containing mixed radioactive waste (Pu, Am).
  • Metagenomics of and groundwater and soil. Reconstruction of microbial genomes from metagenomic data.
  • Management of the PC2 microbiology laboratory and management support for the Radiation laboratory.

Research assistant (casual)

BioGEMS group, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The University of New South Wales

2011

Research assistant

Bioprocesses Group, Faculty of Chemistry

University of Vigo

2011 - 2010

  • DRACORE project: DRAgado + COnfinamiento + REvalorización (Dredging + Containment + Revaluation).
  • Testing of heavy metal resistance; testing of aliphatic and polycyclic hydrocarbons as sole carbon sources and biodegradation; HPLC operation; microorganism isolation;…

Research assistant

Bioprocesses Group, Faculty of Chemistry

University of Vigo

2007 - 2006

  • Introduction to research grant from the Spanish Science and Education Ministry.

Teaching assistant

Faculty of Biology

University of Vigo

2006

  • Lecturer’s support in the Bologna process.
  • Grant provider: University of Vigo.

Teaching Experience

Courses

CVEN9855 - Water & Wastewater Analysis

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The University of New South Wales

2020

  • Term 1. Section on microbiology of wastewater

Invited lectures

Uranium heap leaching: Microbiological aspects

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The University of New South Wales

2012

Workshops

EMBL-ABR: Phylogenetic trees for beginners

EMBL-ABR (Sydney node).

The University of New South Wales

2019

  • Node organiser and facilitator.

EMBL-ABR: Implementing Scalable Bioinformatic Workflows in Snakemake & Nextflow

EMBL-ABR (Sydney node).

The University of New South Wales

N/A

  • Facilitator.

EMBL-ABR: 16S Metagenomics with Galaxy Australia

EMBL-ABR (Sydney node).

University of Sydney

2018

  • Facilitator.

Long-read Data Analysis Workshop

NSW Systems Biology Initiative.

The University of New South Wales

N/A

  • Organiser, trainer, facilitator.

Hands on Zotero, a free alternative to EndNote

Bioprocesses group.

University of Vigo

2011

  • Organiser, sole trainer.
  • Group’s internal workshop.

Supervision

I have also informally supervised, supported, mentored, or collaborated with a total of 38 students across multiple levels (1 Course project, 16 Honours, 20 PhD, and 1 Practicum).

Julia Meltzer

PhD. Role: Cosupervisor.

University of New South Wales

Current - 2022

Biology of Asgard Archaea viruses

Kevin Yonathan

PhD. Role: External supervisor.

University of Technology, Sydney

2024 - 2019

Study of the response of microbial communities to silver nanoparticles through metagenomics.

Grants

Bioplatforms Australia / NSW Department of Industry RAAP – NCRIS NSW Co-investment Support Shared Grant

N/A

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences / Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics at
The University of New South Wales

2021 - 2020

  • Total amount: AU$600,000
  • Role: investigator. CI: Prof. Marc Wilkins

BABS sequencing grant

Investigation of a phage capable of species cross-infection

School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences / Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics at
The University of New South Wales

2020

  • AU$5,000 for sequencing
  • Role: co-CI with Dr. Dragica Damnjanović and Dr. Melissa Harvey

ResTech Support Scheme

OTUreporter pipeline coding project

The University of New South Wales

2020 - 2019

  • AU$15,000
  • Role: project lead. CI: Prof. Marc Wilkins

Postdoctoral writing Fellowship Grant

N/A

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of New South Wales

2015

  • 0.4 FTE salary for 12 weeks

UNSW Tuition fee scholarship

N/A

Graduate Research School at The University of New South Wales

2015 - 2011

  • Tuition fees for PhD program
  • Supervisors: Prof. T. David Waite and Prof. Brett A. Neilan

Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry)

N/A

Australian Federal Government

2015 - 2011

  • AU$27,651.00 per year for 3.5 years
  • Supervisors: Prof. T. David Waite and Prof. Brett A. Neilan

Awards

SRAP Laureate 2020

N/A

Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific

2020

Training and professional development

I have completed about 20 h of training in courses and workshops in the last two years alone.

Courses

Statistics Fundamentals with R - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

2024

Differential Expression Analysis with limma in R

DataCamp.

Online

2022

R Programming - Skill Track (updated)

DataCamp.

Online

N/A

Importing & Cleaning Data with R - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

N/A

Data manipulation with R - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

N/A

Data Visualization with R - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

N/A

Intermediate Tidyverse Toolbox Track - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

2021

SQL Fundamentals - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

2020

R Programming - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

N/A

Python Fundamentals - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

N/A

Tidyverse Fundamentals with R - Skill Track

DataCamp.

Online

N/A

Introduction to Git for Data Science

DataCamp.

Online

2018

Jekyll: make fast, secure static sites and blogs with Jekyll

Udemy.

Online

N/A

Introduction to Python for Data Science (DAT208x)

Microsoft.

Online

2016

Introduction to R for Data Science (DAT204x)

Microsoft.

Online

N/A

Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

The University of Edinburgh.

Online

2015

HTML & CSS

Codecademy.

Online

N/A

Introduction to Genomic Technologies

Johns Hopkins University.

Online

N/A

Workshops

Viral metagenomics with Hecatomb

ABACBS2021 Conference.

Remote

2021

Using containers in bioinformatics

Australia BioCommons.

Remote

N/A

Path Forward for Naming the Uncultivated

SeqCode2021 committee.

Remote

N/A

JAMS 2018 TOAST Workshop

Joint Academic Microbiology Seminars.

University of Technology, Sydney, AUS

2018

Resolving Microbial Communities At Strain-Level Resolution

A. Murat Eren et al..

University of Exeter, GBR

N/A

Genome annotation using Apollo

Monica Munoz-Torres / EMBL-ABR.

Remote

2017

The Omics Analysis Sydney Tutorial (TOAST)

Joint Academic Microbiology Seminars.

Australian Museum, Sydney, AUS

2016

Anvi’o workshop

A. Murat Eren et al..

University of Montreal, CAN

N/A

Bioinformatics for microbial ecology and genomics

Australian Society for Microbiology.

Australia National University, Canberra, AUS

2015

Publications

Pre-prints

Persistent Petroleum Pollution: Microbial Responses in Bunger Hills, East Antarctica

Research Square, rs-6608817.

N/A

2025

K. K. Tan, X. Vázquez-Campos, G. Price, K. Williams, R. McWatters, K. Abdullah, N. Machado de Lima, T. Laird, A. Ray, J. Vink, D. Tribbia, D. Wilkins, T. Spedding & B. Ferrari.

An Asgard archaeon from a modern analog of ancient microbial mats

bioRxiv, 663070.

N/A

N/A

S. Nobs, M. D. Johnson, T. J. Williams, J. Meltzer, X. Vázquez-Campos, F. I. MacLeod, K. Rowell, M. Pitt, B. Paul, D. C. Shepherd, K. A. Michie, I. G. Duggin, D. Ghosal & B. P. Burns.

Under review

Integrating novel culturing and culture‐independent methods to unveil soil fungal dark matter, functional guilds and environmental drivers across Robinson Ridge, East Antarctica

Mycology, 256901951.

N/A

2025

N. Benaud, N. M. Machado de Lima, S. Y. Wong, X. Vázquez-Campos, P. R. Majumdara, D. Wilkins, K. Montgomery, M. Wiechers, B. A. Summerell & B. C. Ferrari.

Carbon monoxide dehydrogenase-encoding microorganisms in volcanic astrobiological analogues: an enzyme system to investigate the evolution of life

FEMS Microbiology Ecology, FEMSEC-25-11-0297.

N/A

N/A

V. Latorre, X. Vázquez-Campos, B. C. Ferrari & M. Hernández.

Bushfire and mining impacts on a threatened swamp ecosystem: responses of the soil microbial community

Environmental Microbiology Reports, 3329896.

N/A

N/A

N. M. Machado de Lima, X. Vázquez-Campos, A. Thomsen, M. Ooi & M. Muñoz-Rojas.

Trace gas oxidation supports sub-surface microbial communities across Namib Desert fog and aridity gradients

ISME Communications, ISMEJ-D-25-01717.

N/A

N/A

D. Z. Tribbia, P. H. Lebre, X. Vázquez-Campos, A. E. Ray, T. Laird, N. Machado de Lima, G. Mags-Kölling, D. A. Cowan & B. C. Ferrari.

Journal articles

DNA reference reagents isolate biases in microbiome profiling: a global multi-lab study

mSystems 10(11), e00466-25.

N/A

2025

S. Anwar, M. Lamaudiere, J. Hassall, J. Dehinsilu, R. K. Bhuller, G. L. Hold, X. Vázquez-Campos, A. Mahnert, C. Moissl-Eichinger, B. Gallé, G. Kainz, P. Pjevac, B. Hausmann, J. Schwarz, G. Kohl, D. Berry, S. J. Vancuren, E. Allen-Vercoe, N. Nielsen, N. Sørensen, A. Eklund, H. B. Nielsen, R. Riedel, J. L. Krause, H. Chang, S. Park, H. Song, H. Seo, A. ul-Haq, S. Kim, Y. Kwon, S. Park, X. Soberon, E. Silva-Herzog, J. A. Verlouw, P. Arp, M. Jhamai, R. Kraaij, A. R. Geelen, Q. R. Ducarmon, W. K. Smits, E. J. Kuijper, R. D. Zwittink, N. van Best, J. Penders, G. Le, C. Driessen, J. Kool, S. A. Shetty, S. Fuentes, M. Demirci, A. Yigin, C. Whalley, A. D. Beggs, C. Quince, R. James, S. Raguideau, M. Gordon, R. Mate, M. Fritzsche, N. P. Danckert, J. M. Blanco, J. R. Marchesi, M. Rauch, R. A. Williamson, A. B. van’t Wout, A. Kritz, S. Rosecker, R. Stevens, L. Laws, L. Sayavedra, S. Romano, A. Telatin, D. Baker, A. Narbad, S. L. Servetas, J. G. Kralj, S. P. Forry, M. E. Hunter, J. N. Dootz, S. A. Jackson, C. E. Mason, D. J. Butler, C. Mozsary, J. Foox, N. Damle, A. Resh, A. Busswitz, P. Lenz, S. Sontag, A. Cross, C. Sanchez, M. Guo, K. Olson, E. A. Smith, A. J. La Reau, T. Ward, S. Kuersten, F. Hyde, I. Khrebtukova, G. Schroth, S. Rijpkema, G. C. Amos & C. Sergaki.

A roadmap for equitable reuse of public microbiome data

Nature Microbiology 10(10), 2384-2395.

N/A

N/A

L. A. Hug, R. Hatzenpichler, C. Moraru, A. R. Soares, F. Meyer, A. Heyder, . The Data Reuse Consortium & A. J. Probst.

Developmental differentiation of mouse inner ear neuron subpopulations resolved with a peripherin-promoter reporter within the Grm8 locus

Scientific Reports 15(1), 10281.

N/A

N/A

L. J. Pearson, J. L. Pinyon, J. M. Cederholm, G. von Jonquieres, F. Bartlett, X. Vázquez-Campos, F. Delerue, L. M. Ittner & G. D. Housley.

Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarctic fungus

Mycology 16(3), 1315–1338.

N/A

N/A

A. Furnell, N. Benaud, X. Vázquez-Campos, E. C. Liew, A. Mertin, J. A. Vink, K. Montgomery, M. R. Wilkins, B. A. Summerell & B. C. Ferrari.

Methylation of elongation factor 1A by yeast Efm4 or human eEF1A-KMT2 involves a beta-hairpin recognition motif and crosstalks with phosphorylation

Journal of Biological Chemistry 300(2), 105639.

N/A

2024

J. J. Hamey, A. Nguyen, M. Haddad, X. Vázquez-Campos, P. G. Pfeiffer & M. R. Wilkins.

Effect of standardized ginger root powder on gastrointestinal bacteria composition, gastrointestinal symptoms, mental health, fatigue, and quality of life: A double-blind placebo-controlled trial

The Journal of Nutrition 153(11), 3193-3206.

N/A

2023

M. Crichton, S. Marshall, W. Marx, E. Isenring, X. Vázquez-Campos, S. L. Dawson & A. Lohning.

Cross-linking mass spectrometry discovers, evaluates, and corroborates structures and protein–protein interactions in the human cell

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(17), e2219418120.

N/A

N/A

T. K. Bartolec, X. Vázquez-Campos, A. Norman, C. Luong, M. Johnson, R. J. Payne, M. R. Wilkins, J. P. Mackay & J. K. Low.

Evidence for a putative isoprene reductase in Acetobacterium wieringae

mSystems 8(2), e00119-23.

N/A

N/A

M. Kronen*, X. Vázquez-Campos*, M. R. Wilkins, M. Lee & M. J. Manefield [* co-first authors].

Contaminant release, mixing and microbial fluctuations initiated by infiltrating water within a replica field-scale legacy radioactive waste trench

Science of The Total Environment 851(Part 1), 158241.

N/A

2022

A. S. Kinsela, T. E. Payne, M. W. Bligh, X. Vázquez-Campos, M. R. Wilkins, M. J. Comarmond, B. Rowling & T. D. Waite.

Metaproteomics reveals methyltransferases implicated in dichloromethane and glycine betaine fermentation by ‘Candidatus Formimonas warabiya’ strain DCMF

Frontiers in Microbiology 13, 1035247.

N/A

N/A

S. I. Holland, X. Vázquez-Campos, E. Haluk, R. J. Edwards, M. J. Manefield & M. Lee.

The interplay between use of biological therapies, psychological state, and the microbiome in IBD

Frontiers in Medicine 9, 788992.

N/A

N/A

P. Tavakoli, U. Vollmer-Conna, D. Hadzi-Pavlovic, X. Vázquez-Campos & M. C. Grimm.

Characterisation of bacteriophage vB_SmaM_Ps15 infective to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia clinical ocular isolates

Viruses 14(4), 709.

N/A

N/A

D. Damnjanović, X. Vázquez-Campos, L. Elliot, M. Willcox & W. J. Bridge.

Genomic insights into the Archaea inhabiting an Australian radioactive legacy site

Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 732575.

N/A

2021

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, M. W. Bligh, T. E. Payne, M. R. Wilkins & T. D. Waite.

Biogeochemical mobility of contaminants from a replica radioactive waste trench in response to rainfall-induced redox oscillations

Environmental Science & Technology 55(13), 8793-8805.

N/A

N/A

A. S. Kinsela, M. W. Bligh, X. Vázquez-Campos, Y. Sun, M. R. Wilkins, M. J. Comarmond, B. Rowling, T. E. Payne & T. D. Waite.

Biocrust cyanobacterial composition, diversity, and environmental drivers in two contrasting climatic regions in Brazil

Geoderma 386, 114914.

N/A

N/A

N. M. Machado de Lima, M. Muñoz-Rojas, X. Vázquez-Campos & L. H. Branco.

Community-led, integrated, reproducible multi-omics with anvi’o

Nature Microbiology 6(1), 3-6.

N/A

N/A

A. M. Eren, E. Kiefl, A. Shaiber, I. Veseli, S. E. Miller, M. S. Schechter, I. Fink, J. N. Pan, M. Yousef, E. C. Fogarty, F. Trigodet, A. R. Watson, Ö. C. Esen, R. M. Moore, Q. Clayssen, M. D. Lee, V. Kivenson, E. D. Graham, B. D. Merrill, A. Karkman, D. Blankenberg, J. M. Eppley, A. Sjödin, J. J. Scott, X. Vázquez-Campos, L. J. McKay, E. A. McDaniel, S. L. Stevens, R. E. Anderson, J. Fuessel, A. Fernandez-Guerra, L. Maignien, T. O. Delmont & A. D. Willis.

Shed Light in the DaRk LineagES of the Fungal Tree of Life—STRES

Life 10(12), 362.

N/A

2020

L. Selbmann, Z. Benkő, C. Coleine, S. de Hoog, C. Donati, I. Druzhinina, T. Emri, C. L. Ettinger, A. S. Gladfelter, A. A. Gorbushina, I. V. Grigoriev, M. Grube, N. Gunde-Cimerman, Z. Á. Karányi, B. Kocsis, T. Kubressoian, I. Miklós, M. Miskei, L. Muggia, T. Northen, M. Novak-Babič, C. Pennacchio, W. P. Pfliegler, I. Pòcsi, V. Prigione, M. Riquelme, N. Segata, J. Schumacher, E. Shelest, K. Sterflinger, D. Tesei, J. M. U’Ren, G. C. Varese, X. Vázquez-Campos, V. A. Vicente, E. M. Souza, P. Zalar, A. K. Walker & J. E. Stajich.

Bacteriophage genotyping using BOXA repetitive-PCR

BMC Microbiology 20, 154.

N/A

N/A

D. Damnjanovic, X. Vázquez-Campos, D. L. Winter, M. Harvey & W. J. Bridge.

Disentangling the drivers of functional complexity at the metagenomic level in Shark Bay microbial mat microbiomes

The ISME Journal 12, 2619-2639.

N/A

2018

H. L. Wong, R. A. White III, P. T. Visscher, J. C. Charlesworth, X. Vázquez-Campos & B. P. Burns.

Response of microbial community function to fluctuating geochemical conditions within a legacy radioactive waste trench environment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology 83(17), e00729.

N/A

2017

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, M. Bligh, J. J. Harrison, T. E. Payne & T. D. Waite.

Uranium extraction from a low-grade, stockpiled, non-sulfidic ore: Impact of added iron and the native microbial consortia

Hydrometallurgy 167, 81-91.

N/A

N/A

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, R. N. Collins, B. A. Neilan & T. D. Waite.

Uranium binding mechanisms of the acid-tolerant fungus Coniochaeta fodinicola

Environmental Science & Technology 49(14), 8487-8496.

N/A

2015

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, R. N. Collins, B. A. Neilan, N. Aoyagi & T. D. Waite.

Acidotolerant genus Fodinomyces (Ascomycota: Capnodiales) is a synonym of Acidiella

Czech Mycology 67(1), 37-38.

N/A

N/A

M. Kolařík, M. Hujslová & X. Vázquez-Campos.

Fodinomyces uranophilus gen. nov. sp. nov. and Coniochaeta fodinicola sp. nov., two uranium mine inhabiting Ascomycota fungi from northern Australia

Mycologia 106(6), 1073-1089.

N/A

2014

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, T. D. Waite, R. N. Collins & B. A. Neilan.

Isolation of novel benzo[a]anthracene-degrading microorganisms and continuous bioremediation in an expanded-bed bioreactor

Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 35(5), 851-855.

N/A

2012

E. Rosales, A. Pérez-Paz, X. Vázquez, M. Pazos & M. Sanromán.

Technical Reports

Create one new species in the genus Menderavirus (Caudoviricetes)

X. Vázquez-Campos & D. Damnjanović. ICTV Proposal, p. 7.

N/A

2023

A WHO collaborative study to evaluate the candidate 1st WHO International Reference Reagents for Gut Microbiome analysis by Next-Generation Sequencing

C. Sergaki, S. Anwar, J. Hassall, A. Logan, P. Rigsby, S. Rijpkema, G. Amos & . study participants. WHO Publication, p. 63.

N/A

2022

Biogeochemical controls of uranium heap leaching

A. Kinsela, X. Vázquez-Campos, R. Collins, B. Neilan & T. Waite. Project Completion Report to ERA, p. 87.

N/A

2015

Conference contributions

Oral presentations

Unusual DPANN Archaea from a radioactive legacy site

Australian Microbial Ecology Conference (AusME 2019).

Perth, WA, Australia

2019

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, M. W. Bligh, M. R. Wilkins, T. E. Payne & T. D. Waite.

Metagenomic and geochemical changes following rainfall at a legacy radionuclide waste disposal site

Australian Microbial Ecology Conference (AusME 2017).

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2017

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, T. E. Payne & T. D. Waite.

The isolation of fungi from low-pH, high ionic strength uranium mine process water

6th International Symposium on Biohydrometallurgy.

Falmouth, UK

2012

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. Kinsela, B. Neilan, R. Collins & T. Waite.

Posters

OTUreporter: amplicon to report in a single command

Joint 30th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW) & Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) Annual Conference (GIW/ABACBS 2019).

Sydney, NSW, Australia

2019

X. Vázquez-Campos, D. McFarlane, A. M. Chilton, J. R. Koval & M. R. Wilkins.

OTUreporter: an automated pipeline for the analysis and report of amplicon sequencing data

ABACBS-2018 National Conference.

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

2018

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. Chilton, J. Koval, J. J. Tree & M. R. Wilkins.

New Archaea lineages from a radioactive legacy site

Molecular biology of archaea: From mechanisms to ecology (MoBA6).

Vienna, Austria

N/A

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, M. W. Bligh, M. R. Wilkins, T. E. Payne & T. D. Waite.

OTUreporter: a modular automated pipeline for the analysis and report of amplicon data

Sydney Bioinformatics Research Symposium 2018.

Sydney, NSW, Australia

N/A

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. Chilton, J. Koval, J. J. Tree & M. R. Wilkins.

Phylogenomics of a radioactive legacy site reveals new Archaea phyla of unknown function

Sydney Bioinformatics Research Symposium 2017.

Sydney, NSW, Australia

2017

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, M. R. Wilkins, T. E. Payne & T. D. Waite.

Rainfall-mediated biogeochemical changes at a legacy radionuclide waste disposal site

16th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME16).

Montreal, Canada

2016

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. S. Kinsela, J. J. Harrison, K. Wilsher, S. Thiruvoth, B. Rowling, T. E. Payne & T. D. Waite.

Biogeochemical changes during experimental column leaching of a weathered uranium composite

15th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME15).

Seoul, South Korea

2014

X. Vázquez-Campos, A. Kinsela, T. Waite, R. Collins & B. Neilan.

Co-authored contributions

Contributed abstracts presented by co-authors at conferences. Showing selected 5 out of 30.

Exploring the human structural proteome, complexome and interactome with deep, large-scale crosslinking mass spectrometry

27th Annual Lorne Proteomics Symposium.

Lorne, VIC, Australia

2022

T. K. Bartolec, M. Johnson, A. Hawken, A. Norman, R. J. Payne, X. Vázquez-Campos, M. R. Wilkins, J. P. Mackay & J. K. Low.

Nanosilver in the aquatic environment: impact on microbial communities

22nd EMBL PhD Symposium “The Roaring 20s: A New Decade for Life Sciences”.

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

2020

K. Yonathan, X. Vázquez-Campos, R. Mann, K. R. Mahbub & C. Gunawan.

The impact of repeated redox cycling events on the biogeochemistry of a simulated legacy radioactive waste trench

17th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere.

Kyoto, Japan

2019

A. S. Kinsela, M. W. Bligh, X. Vázquez-Campos, T. D. Waite, T. E. Payne, M. J. Comarmond & B. Rowling.

Microbial profiling of the Himalayan Puga geothermal system: towards an astrobiological model

Astrobiology Australasia Conference 2018.

Rotorua, New Zealand

2018

A. M. Chilton, X. Vázquez-Campos, L. Steller, T. Djokic & M. J. Van Kranendonk.

Understanding oat stem rust pathogen genome by PacBio sequencing

Sydney Bioinformatics Research Symposium 2017.

Sydney, NSW, Australia

2017

C. Dong, X. Vázquez-Campos, N. Deshpande, P. Zhang, M. R. Wilkins & R. F. Park.

Invited talks

Assembly and annotation of Puccinia graminis f. sp. avenae, ‘oat stem rust’. Lessons about the process and some results

Invited talk at the Plant Breeding Institute.

Plant Breeding Institute, Cobbitty, Australia

2017

Metagenomic and geochemical changes following rainfall at a legacy radionuclide waste disposal site

Joint Academic Microbiology Seminars (JAMS).

Sydney, Australia

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Service

Institutional Service

  • University of New South Wales
    • Postgraduate student representative at the OH&S Committee of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2013–2015).

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Professional Affiliations

  • American Society for Microbiology
    • Regular member (2015–Current).
  • Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society
    • Regular member (2018–Current).
  • Australian Society for Microbiology
    • Regular member (2015–Current).
  • International Society for Microbial Ecology
    • Regular member (2014–Current).
  • Spanish Researchers in Australia-Pacific
    • Co-founder (2014).
    • Board member and web/IT coordinator (2014–2020).
    • Regular member (2021–Current).

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Conferences

  • Australian Microbial Ecology conference 2022 (AusME2022)
    • Plenary chair and poster judge (2022).
  • 6th Australia-Spain Research Forum: Big Data
    • Event registration (2020).
  • 5th Australia-Spain Research Forum: 5 years Bridging Australia and Spain in Research and Academia
    • Website (2019).
  • 4th Australia-Spain Research Forum: Earth
    • Website (2018).
  • 3rd Australia-Spain Research Forum: Air
    • Website and event registration (2017).
  • 2nd Australia-Spain Research Forum: Light
    • Website (2016).
  • Australia-Spain Water Forum
    • Website and event photography (2015).

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Peer Reviews

Reviewer for >10 different journals since 2016, including leading journals in their own fields, e.g., Astrobiology, Environmental Science and Technology, or Microbiome.

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For a full record as reviewer, consult my public ResearcherID profile.